Blog

Here is a collection of articles that I have written about software development, software testing, DevOps, and developer education.

I've been using mongoDB and Zend Framework to make a simple, replicatable filesystem. As it went well, I thought that I could quickly apply what I'd done to create an ultra-simple blog system. Read on to find out all about it.

So you're up with the RESTful buzz but you're concerned about security; as you should be! So what do you do? Well, like all good OOP practitioners, you don't reinvent the wheel. As Steve Jobs said, "Good artists create, Great artists Steal", or borrow in our case. So let's look at the Amazon S3 model and implement that with our framework of choice - Zend Framework to protect your RESTful services.

Do you i18n?

October 5, 2010

Faced with wanting to open up your sites and web-based applications to as wide an audience as possible, what do you do? Start by applying Internationalisation and Localisation.

Love all the variety of formats that you can publish to and subscribe to these days? Well if you do, whether it's JSON, XML, RSS, Atom, CSV, even Excel then you're going to love Zend Framework's ContextSwitch helper!